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Nadmea Carvalho stands in front of some flowers outside her home in Tāmaki
Photo: Saraid de Silva and Julie Zhu
Nadmea and her daughter Juliana came to Aotearoa from Brazil. Juliana and her siblings came first in their adulthood, and Nadmea followed in 2014 once she heard how much they enjoyed living here and after she had finalised her divorce from her husband of 30 years.
As a 19 year old in Brazil, Juliana fell ill suddenly and lost the use of her legs. She found the process of learning how to be independent again challenging, and Nadmea found letting her daughter grow on her own, difficult in its own ways, saying, “My family has a big trouble. They have too much mother. I always knew that.”